Article-supporting device



Sept 8, 1925.

N. A. BERTRAND ARTICLE SUPPORTING DEVICE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 8, 192

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N. A. BERTRAND ARTICLE SUPPORTING DEVI CE Filed July 8, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

NAPOLEON A. BEETEAND, or PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

ARTICLE-SUPPORTING nEvIoE.

Application filed Ju1y 8,1924. Serial No. 724,834.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it'known that I, NAPOLEON A. BER- TRAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsfield, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 'in tion wherein brackets are used to support clothes hanger hooks, a towel rack or the equivalent.

Another object is to provide a construction having novel means for mounting the clothes hanger hooks, towel rack or the like for detachable and Selective use, and to 'secure the same in utile position and in a lowered position.

The more specific objects and advantages will be partlypointed out and otherwise become apparent from 'a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a frontelevation of the parts in towel rack form;

Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof;

Figures 3 and 4 are Sectional Views taken on the lines 3-3 and l -4, respectively, of. Figure 1;

Figure 5 is an elevation showing one of the end drums with its parts disassociated;

Figure 6 is a fragmentary plan view of one of the rack arms;

Figure 7 is a view illustrating the parts in front elevation and used as clothes hanger hooks;

Figure 8 is a fragmentary side elevation of one of the securing arms of the clothes hanger;

Figure Figure 7 I Figure 10 is an end elevation of the parts as used as clothes hanger hooks and 9 is a plan view of the parts of a loop upright, 'portion 11 and with the distal por tion of the loop extended into a forwardly In Figure portions I Figure 11 is a sectional view taken on the line 1111 of Figure 9.

Like reference characters designate like or similar parts in the different views.

Referring first to Figures 1 to 6, two brackets are used as at A, the specific form of which can best be seen in Figures 2 and 3. Each bracket is made from a single strip of metal and has its lower end formed into a hook-shaped bearing 10 having an upright portion 11 extending from its proximal end, 12 extending rearwardly from the projecting supporting arm 13. 3, the bracket is shown as attached to a support such as a wall B, through the medium of a screw or other fastening 14 passed through an opening in the upright portion and penetrating the support. It will be Seen that the bearing 10 and loop.12 offset the upright portion 11 from the support B. Loop 12 is of such formation as to provide a slot as at 15.

Drums C of the specific form shown in Figure 5 are employed, one for each bracket.

Each drum consists of a cylindrical section 16 and a cap 17 adapted to removably telescope thereover and frictionally engage the same, as shown in Figure 4. The sections 16 are jour'naled for rotationin the hook bearings 10.

L-shaped supporting arms forclothes or 7 other goods or material, are provided at 18. One portion of each arm designated 19 is provided with one or more slots 20. The 19 are adapted to be passed through alined openings 21 in the Sections 16 and then moved laterally so that portions of the side wall of the cap will occupy the slots 20 as shown in Figure 4. Thus the arms 18 are secured in place against detachment from the drums. The adjacent ends of the arms 18 are bridged by a sleeve 22. in removable telescopic and adjustable engagement therewith according to the distance which brackets A are secured apart. The arms 18 and sleeve 22 constitute a rack to support a towel or the like, and the tendency of the arms of this rack is to seek the vertical so as to be in a compact and noninterfering position. However, in their operative position, the arms 18 are adapted to be horizontal as shown in the drawings and to releasably secure them in such position, interengaging lugs and depressions are respectively provided on the hook bearings 10 and sections 16 as at 23 and 24 as well shown in Figure 3. In order to permit engagement and disengagement of the lugs 23 and recesses 24, the hook bearings 10 are of resilient material. Also their expansion is facilitated by the fact that they are open or hook shape.

It will be seen that but a single fastening orscrew 14 is s'ufiicien't to mount each of the brackets A and that thedruins'may be applied to the brackets A lateral movement or forced downwardly through the mouth of the hook 10 as preferred. The rack 18'22 may assumea horizontal position for use as shown or may be folded downwardly to a vertical position so as to be compact with respect to the wall or support B and obscure. p

The form of Figures 7 to 11 is the same asthat of Figures 1 to 6 exceptfor a clothes hanger which-is generally designated 'D, and accordingly similar reference characters have been applied to thesimilar parts of'the two forms. This clothes hanger is made from a single strand of resilient wire and has enfd loops 27 and upwardly "extending terminals or'supporting arms 30 wh'ich'are identical to the'portions '19 of the arms 18 in that they have slots jor recesses 31 functioningsimilar to the slots and recesses 20.

:- At the junction of the loops 27 and arms 30, clasp portions 32 are formed'which abut the main portion of the hanger. Portions 32, by using arms 30 as handles, may be sprung out so that pants or other articles may be" clasped between them and the main portion of the hanger.

The device may beiused to'support a 'curtain "rod 'or pole. The ends of the latter telescope into sections 16 and are engaged by the lugs struck out in forming recesses ample only as other supporting means, racks, V

or the like be accommodated or used.

1V hat is :claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a bracket having an article supporting bearing of resilient material, a drum dlsposed in said bearing, and 'coactin'g lug and recess means between said bearing and drum to maintain the drum in operative position, and article supporting means extending from the drum. 7

2. In a device of the class described, a drum having "an opening, an article supporting means extending into the opening andprovided with a slot, and a cap in'telescopic'engagement "with the drum and adapted to extend intb said slot.

3. In a device of the class described, 'a

drum member, said drum member having an opening, a cap 'member telescopically engageab'le with the dmnnmemberpartic'le supporting means disposed in the opening and provided with' a slot adapted to be entered by one of said members.

4. A device of the class described ha ving a bracket provided with a hook, a loo; engageable witha support for the bracket, a lug on said fbr'acket, said bra'cketbeing of resilient material, a drum joirrnaled in said hook having ire'cess engageable "by said lug, said drum having 'al'iine'd openings therethrough in oiiset relation to the bracket, supporting inea'ns'disposed in said openings and provided with slots, and a' cap in telescopic engagement with the drum entering said openings. i

In testimony whereof I *afix 'inyisignature.

NAPOLEON A. "Barri-mun, 

